Drivers of change in legal services and legal education

Hideaki Roy Umetsu is a partner at Mori Hamada & Matsumoto. He focuses on international and domestic M&A transactions, global compliance matters, including anti-corruption complaince, internal investigation, or corporate govenance for oversea subsidiaries. He also gives advice on export controls and other trade-related matters. He was admitted to the bars in Japan (2004) and New York (2010). Umetsu was educated at the University of Tokyo (LL.B., 2003) and the University of Chicago Law School (LL.M., 2009). From 2006 to 2007, he worked as an associate director at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, and he also worked as a foreign associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell from 2009 to 2010.

Maria José Esteban is an adjunct professor at IE Law School, a senior research fellow at the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession, and a partner at the Spanish law firm Escura. Esteban’s research interests are focused on strategic quality management and innovation in law firms, as well as on the social, economic, and regulatory analysis of the legal profession. She publishes in leading scholarly journals and is a frequent speaker at professional and academic conferences. She is a corporate lawyer included in the Best Lawyers list for Spain since 2010, with more than twenty years of international experience. Holds a Ph.D. summa cum laude in Business Administration, and is a numerary member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors.

I am a foreign attorney at Bae, Kim & Lee LLC. Previously worked at Clifford Chance US LLP and Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP. My focus is in M&A, primarily on cross border and private equity transactions.